Top court upholds ruling in favor of Japan's ban on dual nationality

Japan's top court has dismissed an appeal by a group of people living in Europe who have challenged the country's ban on its citizens from also holding foreign nationality.The decision by the Supreme Court's First Petty Bench, dated Thursday, will let stand lower court rulings that acknowledged the constitutionality of a legal requirement that Japanese who gain foreign nationality must give up their original citizenship.The eight plaintiffs, who live abroad in countries including Switzerland and France, had argued that foreign nationality was necessary to facilitate their work and lives abr…READ FULL ARTICLE